1 Writing Class, 35 Years, 113 Deals, 95 Books
For three decades at Columbia Journalism School, Sam Freedman has encouraged students to try long-form narratives. His brand of tough love has paid dividends.
1 個寫作班，35 年，113 筆交易，95 本書
三十年來，哥倫比亞新聞學院的山姆弗里德曼一直鼓勵學生嘗試長篇敘事。他的嚴厲之愛已獲得回報。
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既能做事又能教書的作家萊斯利·愛潑斯坦去世，享年 87 歲
他的大屠殺小說《猶太人之王》受到廣泛好評。他還撰寫了有關他的演藝界家庭的文章並在波士頓大學教授寫作
Leslie Epstein, Writer Who Could Both Do and Teach, Dies at 87
His Holocaust novel “King of the Jews” was widely praised. He also wrote about his show-business family and taught writing at Boston University
既能做事又能教書的作家萊斯利·愛潑斯坦去世，享年 87 歲
他的大屠殺小說《猶太人之王》受到廣泛好評。他還撰寫了有關他的演藝界家庭的文章並在波士頓大學教授寫作
When Adam Czerniakow, the leader of the Warsaw council, received an order to round up Jews for deportation, he apparently chose to end his life rather than obey.
長老委員會是納粹為管理猶太人隔離區而設立的，為被迫居住在那裡的猶太人提供基本服務；他們還必須做出道德上艱難的決定，向佔領者提供要驅逐到勞改營和集中營的猶太人名單。當華沙議會領導人亞當·切爾尼亞科夫接到命令，將猶太人圍捕並驅逐出境時，他顯然選擇結束自己的生命，而不是服從命令。
《猶太人之王》的主角以賽亞·哈伊姆·川普爾曼的原型是波蘭羅茲猶太委員會的狂妄自大領袖莫迪凱·哈伊姆·魯姆科夫斯基。自從愛潑斯坦在 20 世紀 60 年代一本關於大屠殺的書中讀到一段關於魯姆科夫斯基的文字後，他便對魯姆科夫斯基這個角色產生了共鳴。
Isaiah Chaim Trumpelman, the protagonist of “King of the Jews,” was modeled on Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, the megalomaniacal leader of the Jewish Council in Lodz, Poland. The character of Mr. Rumkowski had resonated with Mr. Epstein since he read a single paragraph about him in a book about the Holocaust in the 1960s.
“He rode around with his lion’s mane of hair and his black cape, put his picture on ghetto money (to buy nothing) and ghetto stamps (to mail nowhere), and decided which of his fellow Jews should or should not be sent to death,” Mr. Epstein wrote, about Mr. Rumkowski, in an essay for Tablet magazine in 2023.
「他穿著黑色斗篷，一頭獅子鬃毛般的頭髮騎馬四處遊蕩，將自己的照片印在猶太人區的錢幣（什麼也不買）和郵票（哪兒也不郵寄）上，並決定哪些猶太同胞該被處死，哪些不該被處死，」愛潑斯坦在 2023 年為《Tablet》雜誌撰寫的一篇文章中這樣描魯姆科夫斯基。
羅伯特·奧爾特在《紐約時報書評》中撰文評論《猶太人之王》，讚揚愛潑斯坦先生對議會領導人所實行的“道德模糊的生存政治”的關注，“他們既被暴力推入，又被誘惑拉入絕對權力和絕對無能的境地，在這種境地中，沒有人能夠繼續以任何道德連貫性的方式運作。”
Writing about “King of the Jews” in The New York Times Book Review, Robert Alter praised Mr. Epstein’s focus on “the morally ambiguous politics of survival” practiced by Council leaders “who were both violently thrust and seductively drawn into a position of absolute power and absolute impotence in which no human being could continue to function with any moral coherence.”
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